WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.320 Okay, reporting. Okay, there we go. Well, God bless you guys, and I want to welcome 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:19.080 each and every one of you back for day three of the unveiling of the wow, wow, the woman 3 00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:27.480 of worth. Here we go. Day three. We have a special guest here. Her name is Yvonne Munch, 4 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:32.560 and she has much to share with you today. But first, before we get to that, let's take 5 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:38.640 a look at what we went through yesterday. Just a drive-by, a quick drive-by of what 6 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:45.520 we learned. If things look a little bit different here, believe it or not, 30 minutes ago, all 7 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:55.000 the power in the town of Allingshaw has gone out. So, you know what that tells me? That 8 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:59.320 there must be a lot that's going to happen here today. And I think that has everything 9 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:05.480 to do with Yvonne and what she's going to share, because it didn't go out yesterday. 10 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:15.400 There's no power outage here. Okay, here we go. So, what did we see yesterday? First off, 11 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:23.280 I hope that, you know, I've heard it said that it is good to start something. We started 12 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:31.120 this challenge on Monday, and it's a five-day challenge, and we're halfway through. So, 13 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:38.940 how many of you started with us on Monday? Are you planning to finish with us on Friday? 14 00:01:38.940 --> 00:01:43.600 Because you know what? This is what I heard they say, that it's easy to start something, 15 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:51.840 but it is hard to finish it. Can you imagine Jesus Christ being beaten, tortured for over 16 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:57.040 40 hours, being, you know, finally on his way to Golgotha, and then all of a sudden he goes, 17 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:04.240 hey, hold on here, stop, stop. I didn't, hey, this is too much for me. I don't think I'm going to do 18 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:10.800 this anymore. So, hey, forgive me. This is it. Plus, ain't nobody listening. Nobody's going to 19 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:20.400 do what I have to say. No. Where would you and I be if he did that? Well, for one, I wouldn't be 20 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:27.920 here talking to you over my phone if that was true. So, we need to get to the place where we 21 00:02:27.920 --> 00:02:33.840 finished, because those were the last words he spoke when he came up, when he got on the cross. 22 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:41.920 The last words out of his mouth was, it is finished. Oh, my gosh. Now, that's a wow 23 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:47.760 factor right there. Okay. So, what did we learn yesterday? Well, 24 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:57.360 we learned about the Father's heart towards you. Remember Ephesians chapter 1, where we read, 25 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:08.880 because of his great love, he ordained you so that you would be seen as holy in his eyes 26 00:03:08.880 --> 00:03:19.280 with unstained innocence. Oh, my gosh. I love that. Imagine with standing before the creator 27 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:27.360 of the heavens and the earth, and he sees you as his child, and he says, I see you 28 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:36.880 and your unstained innocence. Oh, my heart just melts at that. Wow. Let me ask you a question. 29 00:03:36.880 --> 00:03:44.480 Did you write your name in your Bible to show you that when you read that, that God is talking 30 00:03:44.480 --> 00:03:53.760 about you? You are that woman, that woman of word. Wow. How many of you thought that 31 00:03:53.760 --> 00:04:01.920 little orphan Annie was the original orphan? Duh. You know, when I first thought about that, 32 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:07.440 I thought of little orphan Annie, and I went, nope, because God showed me, and we talked about 33 00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:16.079 that yesterday, that Satan is the orphan, the original orphan, the original double O. I'm sorry, 34 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:21.600 I happen to be a James Bond fan, but you know what? He's not the good guy. This guy is not the 35 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:33.200 good guy. We also saw that Adam, the fallen, became a double O by default. Wow. Can you think? 36 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:40.000 That just blew me away right there. Then we learned the father made a way, just like he did for Adam 37 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:49.360 and his wife. He also did the same thing for us. He covered them. He covered them so that they now 38 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:55.360 have access through the valley of the shadow of death. He did the same for you, and he did the 39 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:00.000 same for me. When Jesus hung on the cross, the blood of the lamb of that 40 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.880 lamb, cleansed us, covered us, so that we no longer have to walk in the shame. Oh my gosh, 41 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:14.400 I think that that's awesome. I think that's awesome. Hey, put it in the chat 42 00:05:15.760 --> 00:05:24.000 when you get a chance, either if it is on now, because this or you can do it later on, 43 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:29.120 but put it in the chat. Let us know which one of those things really blessed you. 44 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:37.440 Okay, now without any further ado, I would like to turn it over to Yvonne Mutch, 45 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:41.920 so that she can bless you much and what she has to say. 46 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:50.720 Thank you, Walter. And first, I just want to say thank you for inviting me here. I'm excited for 47 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:56.880 what God has. And, you know, we only decided to do this about a week ago, I think it feels like 48 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:02.320 it was a week ago. And I'll tell you what, over here, life is happening at the speed of light. 49 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:08.320 I didn't have time to prepare. But that's okay. Because last night, last night, last night, 50 00:06:08.320 --> 00:06:12.720 God gave me the download. I'll tell you what it was started with yesterday, finding this piece 51 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:18.960 of paper as a sermon I wrote more than a year ago for a group of women here down south of me. 52 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:25.120 And what do you think the title is? Let me take off my glasses. Woman of God, 53 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:33.840 you are highly valued, highly cherished, and your value is determined by God and God alone. 54 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:38.800 And Walter, I'm just going to go with the flow of the spirit if that's okay. And you're welcome 55 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:47.120 at any time or stop me if you have a question if I forget to pause and take a breath. But I feel 56 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:53.040 led by the Lord. Last night, I felt this so strongly. I felt I'm going to say it again, 57 00:06:53.120 --> 00:07:00.400 woman of God, your value is determined by God and God alone. No one else gets to determine your 58 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:07.040 value. No one else. Not your parents. Not when you, not what they said, not what they did, 59 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:13.440 or maybe what they didn't say. That doesn't determine your value. Your teachers in school, 60 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:20.480 what they may have said over you, that doesn't determine your value. Your co-workers today, 61 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:25.760 they don't get to determine your value. And woman of God, that particular boyfriend, 62 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:33.360 he did not and does not determine your value. Or in some cases, maybe even your husband. 63 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:41.280 He does not get to determine your value. You are highly valued by God, cherished, adored, 64 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:48.160 treasured. I could go on and on. And I felt like I'm supposed to say this as well. 65 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:55.520 And I promise you this will tie in. I just heard this this week. I didn't read it in a book. I 66 00:07:55.520 --> 00:08:00.960 heard it. And I just, I apologize. I can't remember who I heard it from, but somebody I know, 67 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:11.040 somebody I've been, somebody I know said that the average woman in church, now that it might be 68 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:15.280 different in the world, it might be the same statistic. It could be a little bit higher, 69 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:23.360 but in church, the average woman, and this is a mature audience, right? There's no children. 70 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:34.320 The average woman will be touched inappropriately by the age of 12. And for boys, it's almost as 71 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:42.240 high as that. And I say that, I say that, well, I'm one that fell into that statistic as many 72 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:49.120 other women. I happen to be age 11. And, you know, although it wasn't technically, officially, 73 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:54.800 you know, that I was molested by the technical definition, I was touched inappropriately, 74 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:03.040 as were so many other women. And we have no idea how that, you know, I could have no idea as an 75 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:11.280 11-year-old girl, how that would affect me, how that would influence my perception of myself, 76 00:09:11.280 --> 00:09:19.200 my value of myself, and how I would allow men to treat me when I, you know, as a teenager, 77 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:26.160 started dating and, you know, having relationships with men. And the way I allowed men to treat me, 78 00:09:26.160 --> 00:09:34.320 because I did not perceive, I did not see my own value. No one ever told me. No, I grew up, 79 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:41.840 and no one ever told me that I was, you know, okay, so I did not grow up in the church, 80 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:46.880 did not grow up in a Christian home. Maybe I should set that there, you know, as a little 81 00:09:46.880 --> 00:09:54.720 bit of a background. So I grew up, no one ever told me that I, anything along those lines. 82 00:09:54.720 --> 00:10:00.160 And so, you know, and then the things that happened to us. 83 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.640 And we just, so this is part of my story. 84 00:10:03.640 --> 00:10:08.080 And Walter, I so appreciate your heart 85 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:09.680 for women and toward women. 86 00:10:09.680 --> 00:10:12.600 And when I first saw you live, 87 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.920 I believe it was my spirit recognized your heart, 88 00:10:15.920 --> 00:10:18.640 my heart recognized your heart. 89 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:21.080 Being a woman who came out of a background 90 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:25.200 of abusive and volatile relationships with men 91 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:29.560 before God gave me my sweet and precious husband 92 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:34.080 that I've been married to now for 35 years. 93 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:36.240 God gave me a gentle, sweet spirit, 94 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.320 man, a creative, an artist. 95 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:44.320 So here I am today, but even after, 96 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.840 and I am gonna talk about Rahab. 97 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:50.360 You talked about Rahab yesterday. 98 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:53.840 So I'll get to Rahab and I have to do this. 99 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:55.640 Oh, okay, oh, okay. 100 00:10:55.640 --> 00:11:00.640 So, even I was 21 years old when I met the Lord 101 00:11:01.560 --> 00:11:03.440 and I had a powerful encounter. 102 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.840 Oh my goodness, that's another story, another story. 103 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.600 And I think this is the moment where I'm gonna pause 104 00:11:10.640 --> 00:11:11.880 if this is all right to say. 105 00:11:11.880 --> 00:11:14.600 So, Walter is part of 100X. 106 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.920 Some of you listening might be part of 100X, 107 00:11:16.920 --> 00:11:18.720 you know Walter through that. 108 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.960 So you would know that 100X has put out a book. 109 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:26.480 And so more of my story of what I'm just touching on today 110 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.840 is in the Broken Chapters book. 111 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:29.880 There you go. 112 00:11:29.880 --> 00:11:33.640 I'm one of the 21 testimonies about how God restored, 113 00:11:33.640 --> 00:11:37.320 redeemed, put back together the broken chapter of my life. 114 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:38.840 So that's the book. 115 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.160 I happen to be chapter 12 and I love it. 116 00:11:42.200 --> 00:11:47.120 So back, so I met, even though I met the Lord when I was, 117 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:48.000 and I'm excited. 118 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.400 So I need to, I'm gonna lower my voice a bit. 119 00:11:50.400 --> 00:11:53.680 I don't need to shout, but I get excited. 120 00:11:54.800 --> 00:11:56.960 So even though I met the Lord, 121 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:59.960 I was a 21 year old single mom 122 00:12:01.560 --> 00:12:05.240 already separated from the father of my child, 123 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.960 already had a string of unhealthy relationships 124 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.760 and met the Lord at age 21. 125 00:12:12.760 --> 00:12:14.080 And you would think, 126 00:12:15.560 --> 00:12:17.760 I heard the audible voice of the Lord. 127 00:12:17.760 --> 00:12:19.320 That was part of the encounter. 128 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:21.480 He said, I'm cleansing you of your sins. 129 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:23.000 Now you would think 130 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:24.800 that you hear the audible voice of the Lord 131 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:28.240 and you're just straight away on your path to glory. 132 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.160 And you're just gonna, you know, 133 00:12:30.160 --> 00:12:31.440 that's what I thought, you know, 134 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:34.080 cause I heard his voice again two days later. 135 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.760 And so I just assumed it was gonna be all a bed of roses, 136 00:12:37.760 --> 00:12:39.240 but see, here's the thing. 137 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:44.840 I could not perceive my value. 138 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:47.720 I didn't understand that I had enough value, 139 00:12:47.760 --> 00:12:52.760 even as a single mom to begin my walk with the Lord. 140 00:12:53.280 --> 00:12:56.920 I thought, and it was a lie, I believed a lie, 141 00:12:56.920 --> 00:13:01.920 that I needed a man to stand beside me to serve the Lord. 142 00:13:02.160 --> 00:13:05.920 I just, I believed a lie or two or three. 143 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:07.760 And so that affected the decisions, 144 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:10.640 the choices because of my thinking. 145 00:13:10.640 --> 00:13:13.800 And, you know, the major mistake I made 146 00:13:13.800 --> 00:13:16.200 at my beginning of walking with the Lord 147 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:19.960 was surely God would want me to be married. 148 00:13:20.880 --> 00:13:23.600 Surely he would want me, you know, 149 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.760 and of course that was God's heart for me, 150 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:28.160 but the thing was he didn't need my help. 151 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:31.280 And so that's another story, you know, 152 00:13:31.280 --> 00:13:34.160 me trying to help the Lord seeking a husband 153 00:13:34.160 --> 00:13:36.200 rather than seeking him first. 154 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:37.960 And when I finally got that in order, 155 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:39.320 and it did take a few years, 156 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.680 when I finally just gave it to the Lord, 157 00:13:42.680 --> 00:13:46.000 just put it on the altar and I sought the Lord. 158 00:13:46.680 --> 00:13:48.800 And then that's when, and I like to tell, 159 00:13:48.800 --> 00:13:50.440 maybe this is a side note, 160 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:54.520 but I like to tell single women who are seeking, 161 00:13:54.520 --> 00:13:56.720 you know, they want a husband. 162 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:58.720 And even I've told a few men this, 163 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:00.440 you just seek the Lord first, right? 164 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:04.120 So here you are and here's your future husband 165 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:07.360 and you wanna seek, you just wanna seek the Lord. 166 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:08.520 As you seek the Lord, 167 00:14:08.520 --> 00:14:11.480 your future husband is seeking the Lord, seeking the Lord. 168 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:14.160 And there is that point in God's time 169 00:14:14.160 --> 00:14:16.520 where your paths are gonna converge. 170 00:14:16.520 --> 00:14:19.760 And I have a quote from a mentor of mine, I so love it. 171 00:14:19.760 --> 00:14:22.240 This is for you single women, okay? 172 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:27.240 She says, I want to be so hidden in God 173 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.400 that my husband, my future husband 174 00:14:31.400 --> 00:14:36.400 has to seek the Lord in order to find me. 175 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:38.440 Whoa. 176 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:40.400 So hidden in the Lord, 177 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:45.240 my future husband has to seek the Lord in order to find me. 178 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.880 So that's kind of like a grand scope, you know, 179 00:14:48.880 --> 00:14:50.720 my journey and I, you know, 180 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.080 I give my testimony here and there, 181 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:58.080 but just coming into an awareness of who I am, 182 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:00.200 my value in God. 183 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:06.440 and you know me and I'm sure you've talked about the father heart of God so 184 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:15.680 I met the Lord December 19th 1983 rededicated my life back to God 1987 and 185 00:15:15.680 --> 00:15:22.960 from that moment on yeah I got then I got married in 1988 186 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:29.280 so what I'm trying to say is this I my first revelation of God was Lord God 187 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:34.240 Almighty oh my goodness you know I was seeking truth and that got me into some 188 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:40.640 New Age stuff and studying the lives of other you know Buddha and all that kind 189 00:15:40.640 --> 00:15:47.640 of stuff but the Lord intervened and the Lord showed me he Jesus revealed himself 190 00:15:47.640 --> 00:15:53.440 as the light of the world but my revelation was just Lord God Almighty 191 00:15:53.440 --> 00:16:04.480 omnipotent it took me until 2008 I mean I had a I had a long more than decades 192 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:12.440 before I had that first revelation of the father part of God and what a 193 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:18.400 difference and so I would have to say my journey of understanding the father of 194 00:16:18.400 --> 00:16:26.760 heart of God didn't begin until 208 and so now fast forward to where we are you 195 00:16:26.760 --> 00:16:32.720 know I'm in this school of ministry and I just became a certified minister but 196 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:44.200 yet it was only not many months ago when I heard what I needed to hear I got I 197 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:49.160 got called out in order to get called up and I'm so thankful that I that I was 198 00:16:49.160 --> 00:16:54.840 able to hear what I needed to hear and what I needed to hear was I still had 199 00:16:54.840 --> 00:17:07.839 not yet fully embraced I was not fully walking in my value in the Lord and so 200 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:12.599 these past few months I think that was spoken over me in February so I have 201 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:19.000 been leveling up since February in my value and I mean you know when I wrote 202 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:26.000 this sermon two years ago I didn't know what I was preaching to myself you know 203 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:29.840 they say preaching to the choir I was right there if I was the one front and 204 00:17:29.840 --> 00:17:33.480 center in the choir that I was preaching to I was preaching what I needed to hear 205 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:39.240 what might you know and so this manifested in different ways and so I'm 206 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:45.000 just I'm just so excited because I know that I have something in me got 207 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.960 activated and I'm I'm on this journey and it just keeps getting better and 208 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:56.640 better and better you know it affected my confidence because I didn't you know 209 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:02.080 I would say things like well let me not take up too much of your time now why 210 00:18:02.080 --> 00:18:08.920 would I always say that because I didn't think I was worth someone's time the 211 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:12.960 Lord just showed me this just a few just a few days ago or I would say or 212 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:18.280 and I talk I do talk fast when I get excited but there was something else 213 00:18:18.280 --> 00:18:22.960 there was another layer to it you know this school of ministry I'm part of and 214 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:28.040 Walters part of it too we're just in different realms of it that they there's 215 00:18:28.040 --> 00:18:35.280 different layers and I would go live you know to share homework and I would just 216 00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:40.960 talk a mile a minute and the Lord showed me it was part of my lack of 217 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:47.080 value it was connected to that because I subconsciously I would think well if I 218 00:18:47.080 --> 00:18:52.280 talk fast I'm only gonna take up seven minutes of your time instead of ten 219 00:18:52.280 --> 00:18:59.000 minutes of your time I mean you know and you're on you know you don't know what 220 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:04.520 you don't know and so that was another thing that I didn't know and so I praise 221 00:19:04.520 --> 00:19:09.480 God that I you know I was on the hot seat and I praise God for that that this 222 00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:16.600 came to light so that I can level up and that I could fully that you know it's 223 00:19:16.600 --> 00:19:21.960 like God Rick my value wasn't lost but I had to recover it I had to recover my 224 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:29.240 awareness of my value and and this is a side note I I had another good friend 225 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:34.800 she pushed me yesterday she gave me that needed push because that same 226 00:19:34.800 --> 00:19:40.120 mentor can I say it I think it's all right to say his name is it okay to say 227 00:19:40.120 --> 00:19:47.680 his name yeah why not so I go ahead my online mentor is Keith Ferrante he's the 228 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:53.560 founder of all things prophetic on Facebook you know when I fulfilled the 229 00:19:53.560 --> 00:20:01.640 requirements for certification I had an interview with him 42 minutes 230 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:09.000 He did most of the talking, and I'm so glad he did because I ended up at the end he gave me a five minute consult. 231 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:23.000 How I could, how I could lead minister work with women, according to what he saw in me, and according to the journey, I've been walking. So I'm excited that friend pushed me, and as soon as Keith talked to me. 232 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:32.000 Within 24 hours I had this eight stake framework, eight different women in the Bible, and what, what we can glean from these eight different women. 233 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:41.000 And it all has to do most of it has to do with value, being empowered with our value through the truth. 234 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:54.000 The foundation is truth and coming stepping into that embracing our value because of what God says. Once again, woman of God your value is determined by God and God alone. 235 00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:09.000 No one else gets to get to determine your value, not even your wonderful wonderful wonderful husband, what he does or say might enhance that, or it might portray that, but it's God who gets who determines your value. 236 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:14.000 So, amen. Yeah, yeah. 237 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:17.000 So one, one of those women. 238 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:28.000 I guess you asked me to share briefly on a one, one or two women, and the Lord had highlighted Abigail to me, but then you mentioned to me you talked to rehab. 239 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:41.000 So, um, let's see Lord where you want to start. Oh, I'll just I'll land on rehab I'll just do a quick little thing on Abigail and this is this is you know part of what I'm going to be. 240 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:48.000 I'm going to be leading women on an eight week journey, based on this eight week framework. 241 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:51.000 And, you know, I asked the Lord, why is it. 242 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:55.000 What do I call it. And he gave me the word journey. 243 00:21:55.000 --> 00:22:01.000 So, um, kind of like your word quest. 244 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:04.000 Yeah, we all we all. Yeah. 245 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:05.000 Yeah. 246 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:15.000 So, just that just real quickly about Abigail the thing I love about Abigail, and, um, oh my goodness I love this about Abigail. 247 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.000 She knew who she was, she knew her worth. 248 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:31.000 Even though she was married to what the Bible says, he was a fool, his name was naval, and he was an outright fool. He's also called a scoundrel. 249 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:38.000 There's other words maybe rascal. But this guy. 250 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:49.000 She was a fool, and just even though Abigail was married to such a man. She did not allow that to diminish her worth. Right. 251 00:22:50.000 --> 00:23:06.000 There's so many things about her one she took responsibility for it all. You know she, she took action she took responsibility, and because of knowing her value and her worth, she was able to go and stand before the man who would be king, and even 252 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.000 counseled him. 253 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:14.000 She changed the course of his action, and he heeded her word. 254 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:20.000 And now he also recognized her value but that's another, that's another story and her. 255 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:31.000 Here, let me go to my back screen here to just so you can jump if you got anybody wants to take a closer look where you can find this story in the Bible. 256 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:35.000 It is. 257 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:38.000 I apologize that I'm not, you know. 258 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:41.000 Okay, here we go. Here we go. 259 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:46.000 Okay, I'm on Deborah Esther, where are you rehab. 260 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:49.000 Okay, it's the next one. 261 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:53.000 So Abigail story is found in. 262 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:55.000 Here we go. 263 00:23:55.000 --> 00:24:10.000 First Samuel 25, all that to say first Samuel 25. She just, you know, she goes before David and says, Oh, on me my lord let this iniquity be, please let your maid servant speak in your ears and hear the words of your maid servant. 264 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:24.000 And the amazing thing to me is David heeded her words he basically says so in so many words he said I have heated your voice. And now this is a paraphrase and I'll do what you say, you know, she stops David from taking revenge. 265 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:44.000 He's out to kill naval and all of neighbors household, but Abigail. She just has the presence of mind. She has the heart posture she has the humility, but but undergirding at all, she, she understands her value somewhere in there she's able to stand in the 266 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:53.000 And her value was such that she ends up, you know, being married to the king, you know it takes another wife. 267 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:59.000 So that's, that's Abigail, just in a, in a very small slice. 268 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:00.000 Any, any thoughts. 269 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.960 Walter, any comments on your part? 270 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:13.280 No, you're doing a great job because, yeah, I loved Abigail, too, that she ran out and 271 00:25:13.280 --> 00:25:21.960 saw what was going on and to bring with her all the food that David had asked for. 272 00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:24.880 That to me was looking ahead. 273 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:29.600 She didn't just run out there and say, oh, woe is me because he's dumb. 274 00:25:29.600 --> 00:25:34.760 She came out with everything he needed, and I think that's also how I believe God worked 275 00:25:34.760 --> 00:25:40.800 in her in such a way that was just awesome, and I just love that story. 276 00:25:40.800 --> 00:25:42.800 I love that story. 277 00:25:42.800 --> 00:25:44.000 Yeah. 278 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:45.160 She did the right thing. 279 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:48.160 She did what needed to be done. 280 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:49.160 Amen. 281 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:50.160 Amen. 282 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:51.160 Yeah. 283 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:52.160 Yeah. 284 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:55.240 So thank you for throwing in a few more details in there. 285 00:25:55.240 --> 00:26:00.040 It's always best when, you know, you listening to the sound of my voice that you go and search 286 00:26:00.040 --> 00:26:01.040 it out. 287 00:26:01.040 --> 00:26:02.720 So it's 1 Samuel 25. 288 00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:06.800 You always will get so much more, as you might perceive. 289 00:26:06.800 --> 00:26:09.000 I love the word. 290 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:11.440 I'm grounded in the word. 291 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:13.440 Amen. 292 00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:18.000 So Rahab, oh my goodness, oh my goodness. 293 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:23.640 I see her as a woman of faith and a strategist. 294 00:26:24.040 --> 00:26:26.520 I mean, it's her own words. 295 00:26:26.520 --> 00:26:32.480 You know, we always refer to her as the harlot, but she was so much more than a harlot. 296 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:34.680 My goodness, she's one of my heroes. 297 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:41.120 She basically orchestrated her own deliverance and the deliverance of her entire family. 298 00:26:41.120 --> 00:26:47.760 She orchestrated it, and she was bold enough to ask for it, and I believe she was bold 299 00:26:47.760 --> 00:26:49.680 enough to ask for it. 300 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:52.720 I believe it has to do with her faith. 301 00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:54.720 Let me go to my screen again. 302 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:58.920 I want to quote her exact words because they are powerful. 303 00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:00.960 Okay, she's the preceding page. 304 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:01.960 Here it is. 305 00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:09.040 Okay, her story is found in Joshua 2, and I'll tell you what, I love the Old Testament. 306 00:27:09.040 --> 00:27:15.480 I know some people don't read the Old Testament so much, and it is what it is. 307 00:27:15.520 --> 00:27:22.480 I love the book, you know, Joshua, Judges, Kings, Chronicles, all these, I call it battle 308 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.680 strategies, battle strategies for victorious Christian living. 309 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:32.240 There's so much to believe in these stories and these men and these women of faith. 310 00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.840 So Rahab, I couldn't choose which one. 311 00:27:34.840 --> 00:27:42.760 So here's her words, Joshua 2, 11, for the Lord, he is God. 312 00:27:42.760 --> 00:27:52.800 She's not even an Israelite, and yet she's the one saying, for the Lord, he is God. 313 00:27:52.800 --> 00:27:57.560 You know, and if you know the story, she says something like, you know, for our hearts melted 314 00:27:57.560 --> 00:28:03.880 when we heard what the Lord your God did for you, and she declares, for the Lord, he is 315 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:04.880 God. 316 00:28:05.040 --> 00:28:15.280 Somehow or another, she responded, or she moved and acted in faith, and then the strategist. 317 00:28:15.280 --> 00:28:20.800 So the very next verse, after for the Lord, he is God, show me kindness. 318 00:28:20.800 --> 00:28:27.600 See, she astutely perceives an opportunity, and you know, show me kindness. 319 00:28:27.600 --> 00:28:29.680 Let me get back to my screen. 320 00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:33.600 Since I have showed you kindness, show me kindness. 321 00:28:33.600 --> 00:28:37.520 And it's just, it is just one of those amazing, amazing stories. 322 00:28:37.520 --> 00:28:38.520 But you know what? 323 00:28:38.520 --> 00:28:39.520 There's one more thing. 324 00:28:39.520 --> 00:28:41.640 And this is fresh matter for me. 325 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:47.440 This only came to me just since you and I talked, Walter, like a week or less. 326 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:53.200 Rahab has three mentions in the Bible. 327 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:58.000 As well as I know the Bible, that was not in the forefront of my mind, but I was going 328 00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:03.120 through my devotions the other day, Smith Wigglesworth devotions, and I was reading 329 00:29:03.120 --> 00:29:05.760 in, I was either reading in Hebrews or James. 330 00:29:05.760 --> 00:29:10.200 Okay, so I knew she's mentioned in the Hebrews Hall of Faith chapter, right? 331 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:16.160 So she gets a mention in Hebrews 1131, but here I'm reading the book of James. 332 00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:20.120 And I guess it's been a number of months since I've read the book of James. 333 00:29:20.120 --> 00:29:26.520 Chapter two, verse 25, she's once again commended for her faith. 334 00:29:27.520 --> 00:29:33.680 But, you know, this might not directly attach to value, but, you know, she's adopted into 335 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:38.840 the lineage of Christ and, you know, that connects to what you were talking about. 336 00:29:38.840 --> 00:29:42.760 She's one of those three women mentioned. 337 00:29:42.760 --> 00:29:44.660 But here's the cool thing. 338 00:29:44.660 --> 00:29:51.920 So she's adopted in, and I believe she becomes the mother of Boaz, okay, thank you for confirming 339 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:52.920 that. 340 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:53.920 Yes. 341 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:58.000 But here's the thing though, Boaz repeats the same. 342 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:00.000 So it's like a two. 343 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.320 Two generational, it happens two generations in a row. 344 00:30:03.320 --> 00:30:06.200 Because who does Boaz end up marrying? 345 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:07.240 Ruth. 346 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:08.280 Yes. 347 00:30:08.280 --> 00:30:11.920 Another woman grafted in to the, 348 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.120 see, so God's value of them, 349 00:30:15.120 --> 00:30:18.640 that, you know, what family they were born to, 350 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:21.120 it didn't determine their worth. 351 00:30:21.120 --> 00:30:24.480 You know, when they were grafted in, they were grafted in. 352 00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:27.080 And you know, in the case of Rahab, her past, 353 00:30:27.080 --> 00:30:29.720 whatever it was, it didn't, 354 00:30:29.760 --> 00:30:32.040 she got a fresh clean slate. 355 00:30:32.040 --> 00:30:35.560 And it didn't diminish her value. 356 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:40.320 These are just, you know, our woman of God, 357 00:30:40.320 --> 00:30:43.240 I have to say it again, woman of God, 358 00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:45.000 your value is determined by God 359 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.600 and you are highly valued and highly cherished. 360 00:30:48.600 --> 00:30:50.080 I just felt compelled last night 361 00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:51.960 that I was just to repeat that 362 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:53.640 and say that over and over 363 00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:56.520 because I know that God's called me to be a mouthpiece. 364 00:30:56.520 --> 00:30:58.600 And I know that there's power in our words 365 00:30:58.600 --> 00:31:00.360 and there's power in my words 366 00:31:00.360 --> 00:31:03.000 and there's power in God's word in our mouth. 367 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:05.400 And so I'm just led to declare that, 368 00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:09.080 woman of God, your value is determined by God. 369 00:31:09.080 --> 00:31:13.200 Don't let anyone tell you anything otherwise. 370 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:15.920 And the word, one of the words the Lord gave me 371 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:17.800 just these past couple of weeks 372 00:31:17.800 --> 00:31:20.520 in preparing for this eight week journey 373 00:31:20.520 --> 00:31:23.640 was inestimable value. 374 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:24.880 And you know, I knew what it meant, 375 00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:26.440 but I had to look it up, right? 376 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:29.320 I mean, it's not a word I use every day. 377 00:31:29.320 --> 00:31:30.560 I looked it up. 378 00:31:30.560 --> 00:31:35.400 Inestimable means your value is too great to calculate. 379 00:31:36.320 --> 00:31:38.520 Don't you just, don't you just love that? 380 00:31:38.520 --> 00:31:40.280 That's what God said. 381 00:31:40.280 --> 00:31:42.240 That's what God said when he was giving me 382 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.320 my mission statement for why I'm doing what I'm doing. 383 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:49.000 We, our value, you know, 384 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:50.960 my word would have been immeasurable 385 00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:55.360 or God-given, our God-given worth. 386 00:31:55.360 --> 00:31:58.680 But the Lord, the Lord himself, he said inestimable 387 00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:00.160 because he's a master wordsmith. 388 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:02.640 He's a master communicator. 389 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:05.440 So what do you think, Walter? 390 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:07.200 Well, I take another sip of coffee. 391 00:32:09.520 --> 00:32:14.520 Inestimable, I can't even say it, inestimable. 392 00:32:14.520 --> 00:32:17.400 Yeah, what you said, it just blows me away 393 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:19.840 that the way God uses words. 394 00:32:19.840 --> 00:32:24.840 He is the one that says that your worth is so great 395 00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:27.000 you can't estimate. 396 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:28.800 To me, that just blows me away. 397 00:32:28.800 --> 00:32:31.120 Too great to estimate. 398 00:32:31.120 --> 00:32:31.960 Yeah, it could come up with something like that. 399 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:32.800 Yeah, it could come up with something like that. 400 00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:34.600 I had a friend point out, it rhymes. 401 00:32:34.600 --> 00:32:37.400 Ha ha ha, too great to estimate. 402 00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:39.160 And that's, that's just awesome 403 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:43.280 because that shows again the heart of a loving father 404 00:32:43.280 --> 00:32:47.000 that he could take someone and not only make sure 405 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.880 that they get a whiff, if you will, 406 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:54.280 of that unstained innocence that causes them 407 00:32:54.280 --> 00:32:59.280 to just grow into that too great to estimate value 408 00:33:00.800 --> 00:33:03.480 of worth, of who God has called them into. 409 00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:07.200 That just blows me away, just blows me away. 410 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.000 And throughout the Bible, you see the value 411 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:12.080 that Jesus placed on women. 412 00:33:12.080 --> 00:33:15.200 You know, he always was breaking ground 413 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:17.680 and, you know, he liberated women. 414 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:19.800 You know, he talked to the woman at the well 415 00:33:19.800 --> 00:33:23.680 when they didn't even talk to Sumerians, let alone women. 416 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:27.560 Here's a quick little tidbit. 417 00:33:27.560 --> 00:33:29.960 If those of you who, you know, understand numbers 418 00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:30.800 and the significant, you know, 419 00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:32.920 how seven is the number of completion, 420 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:36.840 it wasn't until the woman at the well 421 00:33:36.840 --> 00:33:39.920 met the seventh man in her life 422 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:42.240 that her life was transformed. 423 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.120 You know, he said, you've had five husbands 424 00:33:44.120 --> 00:33:46.120 and the man you're with now. 425 00:33:46.120 --> 00:33:48.200 So Jesus was that seventh man 426 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:53.480 that brought her into that, you know, that breakthrough. 427 00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:57.400 She became an evangelist, but he was, you know, 428 00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:00.600 just, he was always dignifying women. 429 00:34:00.600 --> 00:34:02.560 You know, the woman caught in adultery. 430 00:34:04.520 --> 00:34:07.240 You know, he covered her with, you know, 431 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.679 they brought her, you know, they wanted to expose, 432 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:11.560 they did it, you know, they were trying to expose her 433 00:34:11.560 --> 00:34:14.159 and uncover her, her shame and all this. 434 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:17.239 And Jesus had a better story. 435 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.360 But it has just, you know, I didn't touch on this earlier 436 00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:24.679 when I was saying that, you know, 437 00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:27.760 this, that, and the other does not determine your value. 438 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:31.120 I'll even, I forgot to add this to the list. 439 00:34:31.120 --> 00:34:35.400 The church, even the church does not get to determine 440 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:37.639 the value of the woman, of women. 441 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.480 Because, you know, I think we're all aware 442 00:34:41.560 --> 00:34:45.800 of different streams of the church, 443 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.320 what they say about women, the parameters they place, 444 00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:52.120 the boundaries they place, what a woman can or can't do 445 00:34:52.120 --> 00:34:54.280 or should or shouldn't do. 446 00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:56.360 And I don't know if that was just more significant 447 00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.680 in my era in the church. 448 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.200 I think it has improved. 449 00:35:02.200 --> 00:35:04.280 I think there's a greater awareness. 450 00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:10.000 And I admit, I get a little bit perturbed. 451 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:13.760 I mean, let men be men and let women be women, OK? 452 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:15.680 Amen to God's design. 453 00:35:15.680 --> 00:35:17.920 I am all for God's design. 454 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:20.320 And his design will not be mocked, by the way. 455 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:23.040 But that's another, that's a rabbit trail, maybe. 456 00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:26.040 Amen. 457 00:35:26.040 --> 00:35:29.920 You know, sometimes we say, well, men and women 458 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:32.160 are not equal. 459 00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:34.440 I would like them to complete the sentence 460 00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:35.800 and be a little more clear. 461 00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:39.960 Because the truth is, we are equal in value 462 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:41.080 in the eyes of God. 463 00:35:41.080 --> 00:35:43.560 And I think some people, they leave the door a little too far 464 00:35:43.560 --> 00:35:44.840 open. 465 00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:48.080 We need to be clear with our words. 466 00:35:48.080 --> 00:35:49.960 Of course, God knows our heart. 467 00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:52.600 But other men and women might not. 468 00:35:52.640 --> 00:35:54.360 So we need to be clear with our words. 469 00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:57.560 So of course, we're not the same physically. 470 00:35:57.560 --> 00:36:00.160 And we're not equal physically. 471 00:36:00.160 --> 00:36:02.040 But we are equal in worth. 472 00:36:02.040 --> 00:36:04.640 And so, yeah, that's a whole other arena. 473 00:36:04.640 --> 00:36:06.600 Maybe that's not the time. 474 00:36:06.600 --> 00:36:07.880 We don't need to go there. 475 00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:10.560 But I know that there are many women, 476 00:36:10.560 --> 00:36:13.000 because I was one of them. 477 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:14.360 And I am not a victim. 478 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:16.080 I am an overcomer. 479 00:36:16.080 --> 00:36:17.480 Because I know who I am. 480 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:19.240 I know who Christ is in me. 481 00:36:19.240 --> 00:36:21.320 I know who I am in Christ. 482 00:36:22.080 --> 00:36:26.120 But I had certain things, which is 483 00:36:26.120 --> 00:36:28.200 why I've been on this journey so long, 484 00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:32.840 because I had these things put on me. 485 00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:35.600 And it wasn't who I was. 486 00:36:35.600 --> 00:36:39.160 I was called to work with children. 487 00:36:39.160 --> 00:36:42.080 And I did work with children for 25 years. 488 00:36:42.080 --> 00:36:43.760 And I praise God for that. 489 00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:46.000 That was my training ground. 490 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:48.280 That was my equipping. 491 00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:51.160 I worked with children in the church, outside of church, 492 00:36:51.160 --> 00:36:54.760 public, private, alternative education, tutoring, 493 00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:56.440 you name it. 494 00:36:56.440 --> 00:37:01.240 I very likely, and I loved it. 495 00:37:01.240 --> 00:37:08.560 But yet, kind of man had me stereotyped at some point. 496 00:37:08.560 --> 00:37:10.280 The Lord wanted to open other doors. 497 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:14.520 But I was just like, I was so gifted in that area 498 00:37:14.520 --> 00:37:16.680 that that was one threat of it. 499 00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:20.560 That there was not, they just wanted me to stay there. 500 00:37:20.560 --> 00:37:21.840 Because I was so good at it. 501 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:22.800 But there was a season. 502 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.440 It was time to do a new thing. 503 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:27.840 So I got a little off topic. 504 00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:31.840 What I was trying to say was, so often in the church, 505 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:35.880 women are, well, for lack of a better word, 506 00:37:35.880 --> 00:37:38.800 I'm going to say relegated to, OK, 507 00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:40.680 you're going to do the nursery work, 508 00:37:40.680 --> 00:37:42.560 or you're going to clean the bathrooms. 509 00:37:42.560 --> 00:37:48.080 I mean, I think back to the church, a particular church. 510 00:37:48.080 --> 00:37:53.880 And there was a very strong flavor of that. 511 00:37:57.760 --> 00:37:59.280 But God is good. 512 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.680 Yeah, amen, amen, amen. 513 00:38:02.680 --> 00:38:03.440 God is good. 514 00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:05.800 But some of us women, though, see, 515 00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:09.160 our spirits have no gender, right? 516 00:38:09.160 --> 00:38:14.960 Our spirit has no gender, no color, no ethnicity. 517 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:17.400 Our spirits are our spirits. 518 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:19.760 This is just our Earth suit. 519 00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:22.920 Oh, by the way, one more thing. 520 00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:27.000 Our outward appearance doesn't define our value either. 521 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:28.800 Amen. 522 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:33.360 But back to our spirits, no gender, no color. 523 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:38.080 And so there's things that God gifts us each differently 524 00:38:38.080 --> 00:38:40.880 and uniquely for what he's called us to do. 525 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:43.280 And it took me a long time to discover 526 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:46.800 that what he called me to do was not so much what we would call 527 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:50.560 traditional for the women. 528 00:38:50.560 --> 00:38:53.200 It took me, I had the slow cooker calling. 529 00:38:53.200 --> 00:38:58.240 I did not have a calling until I was 49 years old 530 00:38:58.240 --> 00:39:00.560 that I had felt a call from the Lord. 531 00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:01.640 First, it was private. 532 00:39:01.640 --> 00:39:06.040 And the next year, it became public three different times, 533 00:39:06.040 --> 00:39:10.240 publicly spoken, age 49. 534 00:39:10.240 --> 00:39:13.560 But we just all have our own unique journey. 535 00:39:13.560 --> 00:39:16.160 But it explains to me now, I can look back 536 00:39:16.160 --> 00:39:19.840 and see so clearly now, why it didn't thrill my heart 537 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:26.480 to be asked to work at a, prepare for a women's banquet 538 00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:28.720 and make beautiful tables. 539 00:39:28.720 --> 00:39:34.880 Now, praise God that there are women who enjoy doing that. 540 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:39.880 And that's their gift to make things beautiful, right? 541 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:43.360 And I did have a season of hospitality in my own home. 542 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:48.280 But it's just not all women have the gift or the desire 543 00:39:48.280 --> 00:39:51.840 or the thrill of heart to set a beautiful table 544 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:55.600 or do some of these things. 545 00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:57.880 And I just praise God for the awakening. 546 00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:01.120 I do believe the church's awakening. 547 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.840 to the value of women. 548 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:03.680 Oh, can I mention one more woman? 549 00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:06.160 Sure. 550 00:40:06.160 --> 00:40:07.280 I'm just flowing. 551 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:08.500 This one excites me. 552 00:40:08.500 --> 00:40:13.500 I have always been intrigued with Deborah and Barack. 553 00:40:13.640 --> 00:40:14.880 And Barack. 554 00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:17.320 In my day, Barack got a bad rap. 555 00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:18.200 Oh, because he said, 556 00:40:18.200 --> 00:40:20.500 if you don't go to battle, I won't go. 557 00:40:20.500 --> 00:40:23.360 I think that is my personal opinion 558 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:25.080 that's been misinterpreted. 559 00:40:25.080 --> 00:40:28.920 I believe he saw the call of God on Deborah's life. 560 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:32.680 He recognized who she was. 561 00:40:32.680 --> 00:40:34.400 He knew the anointing was on her life 562 00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:36.460 and he was a wise man to say, 563 00:40:37.560 --> 00:40:40.440 and wasn't intimidated. 564 00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:43.680 It takes a strong man not to be intimidated 565 00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:44.760 by a strong woman. 566 00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:47.040 I praise God for the strong men. 567 00:40:47.040 --> 00:40:50.240 Oh, I praise God for the strong men. 568 00:40:50.240 --> 00:40:51.840 Amen, amen. 569 00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:52.720 You're absolutely right. 570 00:40:52.720 --> 00:40:55.760 Cause I felt the same way when I read that years 571 00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:57.520 and years ago for the first time. 572 00:40:57.520 --> 00:41:00.480 And I was literally taught that he was not a man. 573 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.880 He was afraid, all of these things. 574 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:05.260 But just the opposite is what I saw was, 575 00:41:05.260 --> 00:41:08.080 wow, he must've saw something. 576 00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:11.680 Why would God say she's a prophet? 577 00:41:11.680 --> 00:41:15.440 And he must've knew that she was a prophet 578 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:18.920 and then is going to act as though she's not? 579 00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:21.080 That does not compute. 580 00:41:21.080 --> 00:41:23.160 Because, hey, in those days, 581 00:41:23.160 --> 00:41:26.720 that was one of the things that stopped me for many years 582 00:41:26.720 --> 00:41:30.040 because I often thought when a prophet shows up, 583 00:41:30.040 --> 00:41:34.000 he sees every dirty thing you ever did. 584 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:39.000 So how are you gonna do anything after that? 585 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.000 You can't because of how you were taught. 586 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:43.520 But when you see that, hey, 587 00:41:43.520 --> 00:41:46.440 the heart of the father is too big 588 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:48.880 for these little penny ante games 589 00:41:48.880 --> 00:41:52.880 that we as people play amongst one another 590 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:54.800 to up and other people, 591 00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:57.680 to put them down, to make them less, you know? 592 00:41:57.680 --> 00:42:00.600 And I, you know, hey, at some point, 593 00:42:00.600 --> 00:42:03.120 we have to get honest with where we are 594 00:42:03.120 --> 00:42:05.480 and just trust that God is gonna be God. 595 00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:09.480 He's the one that said, I think it's in Psalm 115. 596 00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:10.960 Hey, I am the Lord. 597 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:13.120 I do what I dadgum please. 598 00:42:13.120 --> 00:42:15.440 Yes, he sits in the heavens. 599 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.280 He does what he pleases. 600 00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:18.800 There you go. 601 00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:20.640 So you know what? 602 00:42:20.640 --> 00:42:21.800 Who am I? 603 00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:24.040 I just say, I don't understand. 604 00:42:24.040 --> 00:42:25.480 You know what you're doing. 605 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:27.480 I'll just hold on to your hand. 606 00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:28.320 Let's go. 607 00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:29.520 That's all I wanna do. 608 00:42:29.520 --> 00:42:34.480 So yeah, I mean, this has been awesome, awesome, awesome. 609 00:42:35.600 --> 00:42:38.080 I hope that when we do get around 610 00:42:38.080 --> 00:42:40.560 to posting this on Facebook, 611 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:46.360 you know, I just realized I tried to make you a co-host 612 00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:47.840 and you probably could have went up 613 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:49.480 and put this on Facebook, 614 00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:51.200 but I went, ah, I'll do it later. 615 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:54.880 Oh, now that I have a pro account, 616 00:42:56.080 --> 00:42:57.920 I have a pro account that might've been possible. 617 00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:58.960 I've never done it before, 618 00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:01.440 but we might've been able to figure that out. 619 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:02.280 But you know what? 620 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:04.280 We're just gonna trust God. 621 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:06.440 We're just gonna trust God is what it is. 622 00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:09.400 Can I add a quick PS about Deborah and Barack? 623 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:10.640 Sure you can. 624 00:43:10.640 --> 00:43:12.920 The first words out of his mouth 625 00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:14.920 when she told him the word of the Lord 626 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:17.000 and see, he recognized it was the word of the Lord. 627 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:19.440 The first words out of his mouth were not, 628 00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:21.320 I will not go unless you go. 629 00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:24.800 The first words were, I will go. 630 00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:28.520 And you know, just the little tiny, 631 00:43:28.520 --> 00:43:30.840 you know, you gotta pay attention to the details. 632 00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:33.360 His first words were, I will go. 633 00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:35.640 And then of course, and then Deborah responded 634 00:43:35.640 --> 00:43:38.520 without missing a beat, I will go. 635 00:43:38.520 --> 00:43:40.280 You know, it was a God ordained thing. 636 00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:43.200 And you know, I'm just excited when men and women 637 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:47.840 work together as unto the Lord. 638 00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:50.360 And when we just celebrate one another, 639 00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:53.120 I celebrate all my brothers and I celebrate all my sisters. 640 00:43:53.120 --> 00:43:55.080 But yeah, I'll stop talking. 641 00:43:55.080 --> 00:43:57.040 I just wanna say thank you again. 642 00:43:57.040 --> 00:43:59.360 Thank you again, Walter, for this opportunity. 643 00:44:00.200 --> 00:44:01.720 I love sharing. 644 00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:02.720 Oh, wow. 645 00:44:02.720 --> 00:44:04.400 You are so welcome. 646 00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:07.160 I was so blessed with what you shared 647 00:44:07.160 --> 00:44:09.680 because I only touched yesterday 648 00:44:09.680 --> 00:44:14.680 on just naming Sarah and Rahab and Mary, just the three. 649 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:19.560 And I even talked generally about other women 650 00:44:19.600 --> 00:44:23.840 that paved the way so that the Messiah would show up 651 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:25.880 so that we could see God working. 652 00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:28.760 I mean, my gosh, Esther, for example, 653 00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:33.760 how she, you know, for such a time as this, 654 00:44:34.040 --> 00:44:35.480 you know, she probably thought, 655 00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:40.480 oh, I just get married and there you go. 656 00:44:40.600 --> 00:44:44.280 So, oh my gosh, there's just so many women 657 00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:49.280 that paid, that laid down their lives in service 658 00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:54.320 so that God could move his agenda, his history forward, 659 00:44:55.600 --> 00:44:57.240 his story forward. 660 00:44:57.240 --> 00:44:58.960 And it just blows me away. 661 00:44:58.960 --> 00:44:59.800 Elizabeth. 662 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.720 gave birth to John the Baptist. 663 00:45:02.720 --> 00:45:05.420 I mean, oh my gosh, so many things. 664 00:45:05.420 --> 00:45:09.540 And I'm pretty sure that they are women 665 00:45:09.540 --> 00:45:11.460 that we have never heard of 666 00:45:12.900 --> 00:45:14.500 that have done things that, 667 00:45:14.500 --> 00:45:16.500 hey, there just wasn't enough ink. 668 00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:21.500 But maybe one day we get to meet one of those unsung heroes 669 00:45:21.940 --> 00:45:25.140 that played in the background to open up doors 670 00:45:25.140 --> 00:45:26.700 that we've never even heard of before. 671 00:45:26.700 --> 00:45:27.900 Oh my gosh. 672 00:45:27.900 --> 00:45:28.740 This is awesome. 673 00:45:28.740 --> 00:45:30.020 This is awesome. 674 00:45:30.020 --> 00:45:32.180 Sometimes we don't even know their name. 675 00:45:32.180 --> 00:45:35.500 Some of these women, we're not even given their name. 676 00:45:35.500 --> 00:45:37.300 Yeah, yeah. 677 00:45:37.300 --> 00:45:39.480 So one of them, yeah, I better just. 678 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:44.480 Well, we have about, usually this is about the time. 679 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:51.840 I usually don't go over 45 minutes to do this. 680 00:45:51.980 --> 00:45:55.680 So we've gone a little above that, but that's okay. 681 00:45:55.680 --> 00:46:00.680 So, hey, you guys out there and on Facebook land, 682 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:03.720 this is the time that you take something, 683 00:46:03.720 --> 00:46:06.640 go live in the Facebook page 684 00:46:06.640 --> 00:46:08.600 and let us know what blessed you. 685 00:46:08.600 --> 00:46:11.060 One takeaway, at least one takeaway. 686 00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:15.380 And I think that, hey, I got blessed. 687 00:46:15.380 --> 00:46:16.360 And you know what? 688 00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:19.440 I'm gonna go through this one more time, one more again. 689 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:21.520 I have to go through this one more time 690 00:46:21.520 --> 00:46:24.120 and take some notes because I'm gonna come back tomorrow 691 00:46:24.120 --> 00:46:26.160 and I'm gonna say, hey, did you catch this? 692 00:46:26.160 --> 00:46:27.200 Did you catch that? 693 00:46:27.200 --> 00:46:28.220 Did you get this? 694 00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:30.580 Oh man. 695 00:46:30.580 --> 00:46:32.920 So, hey, I wanna thank you 696 00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:36.200 for taking time out of your morning to be with us. 697 00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:39.600 And you know what? 698 00:46:39.600 --> 00:46:44.600 My electricity went down at 4.30 in the afternoon. 699 00:46:46.080 --> 00:46:51.080 It is now almost five o'clock and it hasn't come back yet. 700 00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:53.960 Well, at least it's daytime. 701 00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:54.800 So, what do you say? 702 00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:55.640 Oh my God. 703 00:46:55.640 --> 00:47:00.280 Yes, if it was night and I'm sitting outside here, 704 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.840 I doubt if you see anything but my teeth. 705 00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:07.840 And you got a beautiful background there. 706 00:47:09.040 --> 00:47:09.880 Thank you. 707 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:11.800 Well, it's pretty nice here in Sweden. 708 00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:14.600 This time of year is pretty nice, pretty nice. 709 00:47:14.600 --> 00:47:17.400 Okay, well, I wanna thank you again. 710 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:18.560 Thank you again. 711 00:47:18.560 --> 00:47:20.040 God bless you. 712 00:47:20.040 --> 00:47:23.040 And thank you for how you've blessed my heart today 713 00:47:23.040 --> 00:47:26.560 with what you shared and just taking time out of your day. 714 00:47:26.560 --> 00:47:30.480 So, to everyone else who's gonna see this, 715 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:35.240 God bless you and you have a great, great day. 716 00:47:35.240 --> 00:47:36.640 God bless you. 717 00:47:36.640 --> 00:47:37.680 Amen. 718 00:47:37.680 --> 00:47:38.520 Amen. 719 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:41.880 All right. 720 00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:42.720 All right.